From: Emmanuel Charpentier (manu@cybercable.fr)
Date: Fri Oct 23 1998 - 14:10:05 MDT
Robin Hanson wrote:
>
> den Otter writes:
> >The nano-posthumans would all need to co-operate flawlessly
> >(be like-minded to a high degree) to be effective against an entity
> >that has the same computing power and mass, but a centralized
> >decision-making system (i.e. it only has to make up its own
> >mind).
>
> This sounds like an argument for centralized economic planning,
> which has not been too popular lately.
Moreover; I would add that the multiple beings have one HugE advantage
over, however wise and intelligent and whatever you can think of as a
realistic attribute, one and only one individual: the multiple points of
view.
Even when a point of view is false, when parts of it include contrary
beliefs, lies, redundancies, it's far more richer than one unique set of
beliefs. An example: when a society of persons hold a belief contrary to
its goals or its happiness, it's better than one individual set in the
same kind of beliefs.
Manu.
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